Many coffee lovers like to drink premium productshand brewed coffee, but I also feel that brewing coffee by hand requires a lot of equipment. The operation requires skills and a lot of equipment. Front Street has launched a series of ear-hanging bags for this purpose. The Front Street hanging ear coffee series has flavors from multiple production areas, such as Sidamo, Brazil, Honduran sherry, etc. Of course, there are other types of coffee beans. If customers want to make coffee beans, Front Street will also make them according to their needs. For example, a few days ago, a customer drank a Front Street Indonesian PWN Golden Mandheling in the store and found the taste satisfactory, but was too lazy to go home and grind it into powder, so we made coffee beans on site for the customers.
How to choose ear-hanging coffee?
1. Production date: Generally, freshly ground coffee powder is the freshest. The production method of hanging ears is to seal and bag it immediately after careful roasting and careful grinding. You should try to buy coffee that is as close to the roasting date as the taste will deteriorate after more than 2 months.
2. Completeness of information: Coffee bean information includes variety, grinding degree, origin, roaster, etc.
Advantages of hanging ear coffee:
1. Compared with instant coffee, hanging ear coffee has a richer flavor. Hanging ear coffee has more choices. You can experience coffee from different origins, different processing methods and different roasting degrees, and you can drink more specialty coffee with unique flavors.
2. Hanging ear coffee does not contain flavoring, creamer and other additives and is healthier.
3. Affordable, fast and convenient to brew, easy to carry, no need to prepare brewing utensils.
Front Street Sidamo Coffee has always been loved by everyone. In order to make it more convenient for everyone to brew coffee on a daily basis, FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) has made Sidamo coffee into ear-hanging bags. In order to make the best tasting ear hangings,FrontStreet Coffee pays great attention to the cleanliness of the grinder, grinding degree and packaging.
Grind
The first determining factor in the quality of brewing with an ear-mounted bag is that the flow rate is too slow or too fast, and this depends on the grinding of the grinder. If the grade of the grinder used is not high enough and the grinding quality is poor, a large amount of fine powder will be produced during the grinding process and the grinding will be uneven. When brewing, there will be a "traffic jam" and the flow rate will slow down. If the soaking time is too long, the beans will be over-extracted. The result will be cloudy taste and poor flavor. No matter how good the beans are, they will not be able to express their proper flavor.
Grinding machine cleaning
It is not only the grinding degree that affects the flavor of coffee, but also the cleaning of the grinder. Front Street strictly stipulates that the grinder must be carefully cleaned every time before grinding ear-mounted coffee. Not only that, Front Street also regularly checks the cleaning and cleaning status of the grinder, and supervises the overall grinder cleaning and packaging process.
Automatic packaging machine/nitrogen filling
The use of mechanical automatic packaging has two purposes. One is to improve the sealing effect of the outer packaging, and the other is to inject nitrogen into the packaging at the same time to eliminate as much oxygen as possible, making oxidation less likely to occur and greatly extending the shelf life of coffee flavor. If it is hand-packed and does not add nitrogen, the shelf life may be only one month. If it is automatically packaged and nitrogen is added, the shelf life can easily reach one year.
This time, Front Street introduces two seasonal hanging ear coffees and the always popular Front Street Honduran Sherry hanging ear coffee. The current seasonal coffee on Front Street includes Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried Sidamo coffee and Front Street Brazilian semi-sun-dried red fruit coffee.
Front Street Brazilian semi-sun-dried red fruit hanging ears (with obvious sweetness, light lemon aroma, rich nutty flavor, and obvious dark chocolate flavor in the back)
Brazilian coffee beans were introduced from French Guiana (a country in northern South America) in 1720. Brazil was a colony of Portugal at the time, and many other South American countries were colonies of Spain. Therefore, most countries in South America speak Spanish, while Brazil speaks Portuguese.
In order to introduce coffee beans from Guyana to Brazil (at that time, the export of coffee to other countries was strictly prohibited), the Portuguese officers stationed in Brazil captured the heart of the wife of the Governor of Guyana and successfully brought coffee seeds into Brazil. Since then, coffee has rapidly adapted in Brazil, spreading from the north to the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. By 1845, Brazilian coffee beans accounted for 45% of the world's total coffee beans. Brazil is currently the world's largest coffee exporter.
FrontStreet Coffee not only includes Brazil in its hanging ear series, but also in its Front Street ration bean coffee series. This shows that Brazil, as a coffee-producing country, is indispensable in the classic coffee flavor. Front Street Grain Beans are the “face” among the coffee beans in the production area, because its basic flavor of the production area is more recognizable, and it is also a low-priced and cost-effective coffee bean.
Semi-sun treatment
In the semi-sun drying method, after selecting suitable coffee cherries, remove the peel, pulp and part of the pectin, and dry them with a small amount of pectin until the moisture content is 12%.
FrontStreet Coffee believes that semi-sun processing is actually similar to honey processing. Costa Rica is famous for its honey processing. Honey processing is just used by Costa Rica to define semi-sun processing. Costa Rica is more sophisticated in honey processing, which is divided into yellow honey, red honey, black honey, etc., so gradually, the term semi-sun processing is not as famous as honey processing. However, FrontStreet Coffee cupped Costa Rica's honey-processed coffee beans and found that there are obvious differences from Brazil's semi-dried coffee beans. Although both have obvious sweetness, Costa Rica's sweetness tends to be sweeter than dried fruit, which is lighter, while Brazilian sweetness tends to be sweeter than chocolate, which is thicker.
Front Street Sun-Dried Ethiopian Sidamo (light floral aroma, rich berry acidity, and a sense of fermentation)
The Sidama production area is located in southern Ethiopia. The industry here is mainly agriculture, and the coffee growing areas are located around the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The largest town in Sidama Province is Hawassa, which is an important local coffee export distribution center. Sidamo's coffee has a very diverse flavor. Because of different soil composition, regional microclimate and countless native coffee varieties, the coffee produced in each urban area has obvious differences and characteristics. Ethiopian Sidamo has a balanced flavor and higher sweetness. Its body is also higher than that of Yirgacheffe, especially the acidity and sweetness similar to red wine produced during the fermentation of the sun-dried pulp.
Solar treatment method (African drying bed)
Place the coffee cherries directly on the cement floor or on a drying rack to dry them. The purpose is to make the coffee dry and easy to store. Usually depending on weather changes, the drying time is about 2-4 weeks.
Usually, coffee used for commercial purposes is placed on the cement floor to dry. The coffee cherries must be rolled continuously and timely to heat the front and back evenly, which is conducive to drying. At the same time, it also prevents the bottom from being in contact with the ground for too long, which may cause mold. The hand-selected fruits and coffee beans used to make high-quality products are sun-dried in the African Bed. The coffee fruits are spread on a transparent mesh bed to enjoy sunbathing. The thickness of the coffee beans spread on the rack will also vary according to local conditions.
Front Street Honduran Sherry Barrel Hanging Bag (obvious wine aroma, vanilla, cream, balance, cocoa aftertaste, moderate acidity)
This Front Street Honduran sherry coffee beans are from Masaguara, a city in the southwest Intibuca province. Front Street Coffee (Front Street Coffee) also has another wine barrel coffee bean from Moka Manor on the bean list - Front Street Honduran lychee orchid. The flavor of sherry coffee beans is closer to the taste of whiskey sherry, with rich vanilla cream and a long-lasting nutty chocolate flavor in the back, while Front Street Honduran lychee tends to have a brandy flavor, with a slightly weaker flavor level than Front Street sherry. It also has a long-lasting nutty chocolate flavor in the back. Judging from the sales list of FrontStreet Coffee, it is true that Front Street Honduran sherry is more popular than Front Street Honduran lychee.
Fine washed whiskey fermented in sherry casks
The freshly picked coffee cherries are first carefully washed, then put into mature sherry wine barrels, fermented at low temperature for 30-40 days (the temperature is about 15-20°C), and then dried in the shade.
Sherry barrels are barrels used by sherry distilleries in the whiskey industry for aging. The Sherry brewing process goes through the Solera System, a maturation process. This process refers to the process of mixing and aging sherry from different years after the sherry has been fortified, which is also what creates the unique flavor of sherry.
How to brew coffee with hanging ear
1. From FrontStreet CoffeeHanging ear coffeeFor example, the weight of coffee powder is 10g.
2. Tear open the outer packaging bag, take out the ear-hanging coffee bag inside, tear open the opening of the ear-hanging bag, and pull apart the small ears on both sides to place it on the cup.
3. When choosing a cup, try to choose a cup with a mouth that is not too big, otherwise the two ears of the ear-mounted coffee may not be able to hang. The diameter of the cup mouth used by FrontStreet Coffee is about 8-9cm.
4. The brewing method of ear-mounted coffee is actually the same as that of Pour over(V60) coffee, but it is not as rigorous as Pour over(V60) coffee. But basically, water temperature, steaming, and circular filling of water are still required. The parameters for brewing ear-mounted coffee of FrontStreet Coffee can be referred to below: water temperature is 90°C, steaming for about 10 seconds, and the amount of steaming water is consistent with the coffee powder.
5. After steaming, pour water directly to the end. If you are particular, you can also pour water in two times. The amount of water is determined by the cup you choose. FrontStreet Coffee chooses a 300ml glass. Water is poured in a small flow in a circle, and the water is filled to the 7-minute mark of the cup.
After brewing, take away the ear-hanging bag. After brewing once, you cannot use it again because the substances in the coffee powder have been extracted. If you brew again, there will be nothing to extract, and the taste will be very watery. Don’t think it’s a waste to wash it just once. Most of the hanging ears on the market now can guarantee fresh grinding, and the prices are also very good.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
